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47.5 hours of work a week for $9 an hour LOL
Not choosy enoughAnonymously, yet, just enough personal information for someone to recognize her...
Right. Keep it anonymous. Oh but also I'm clearly a teacher in the Buffalo school system in the Depew area. With a nearly 16 month old son and a blue heeler dog.
Nah the current babysitter and your friends/neighbours will never ever recognize that it's you from that super vague post. It's a real mystery who this person could even be tbh. I think they should list their address at this point and full birth name to wrap the post up. Ya know to keep it mysterious and on the down low so the other sitter doesn't see it. Best joke would that the current babysitter is looking for other jobs and wants to leave this person and sees the ad while job searching.
Better call Scooby Doo and the rest of those pesky kids to solve this mystery jinkies!!
…Who? Ohhhh do you mean that Great Dane who solves mysteries? Please be clearer when discussing cartoon dogs. /s
I just really have to laugh at the idea of using a cartoon character to give someone a reference into your real dog. Like “oh yeah Bluey really shows classic blue healer personality traits—loyal and obedient, barks when bored, does math homework.”
The sitter fails to recognize her employer. She's actually so desperate for a new job that she skips over the details and goes straight to setting up an interview. They meet and have a "Pina Colada" moment
“Do you like Pina Coladas”?
That's what I was thinking
I imagine the dog needs to be tended to as well.
It’s the dog like on Bluey! It probably has its own job and spouse and kids like on Bluey!
OMG. I’m dying!
Actually, I’ve seen posts on here where people are asking for a full time child minder for like $4 an hour so this is looking up!!!
I've seen asks for nannies that were under $2 an hour and included more than babysitting. And often with the sitter supplying a vehicle and their own food. Yikes.
LOL I love the way she thinks her 16 month old lives by some sort of set routine and then she tacks on that you also have to pet sit. Amazing. Oh I seriously doubt you still get paid when you get time off.
Am I reading it right that her baby doesn't wake up until 10 am???
My now 11 year old spent the first 3 years of her life on a second shift schedule. It’s entirely plausible that OOP’s toddler sleeps until 10.
A lot of teachers, trained in childhood development, do put their kids on routines.
As toddlers grow, that routine changes also. So what may be a set routine in July could be totally different come fall especially when it comes to naps. That child will sleep less during the day=more work for the sitter.
I was a SAHM and both of my kids had schedules. These of course varied when we traveled or the kids were sick but it is so much easier to manage things when you know what will be happening when and can plan things around the schedule.
Yeah I doubt she pays for 'time off'. Lol.
Also WTH time does the kid go to bed where he sleeps til 10. My kids were on a 7 to 7 for years.
My older 2 had no schedule, my last has had her own since before birth (literally, I was SO EXHAUSTED between 8-11am and that has always been her nap) it isn't to die for, she's ok w occasionally getting wonky (unless it's waking up early, after 2 hours of that she's going back to bed) but I can see it being possible this teachers kid
Something tells me your current sitters feelings won't be hurt as much as they think. If anything it will probably be relief for them. They can now take their skills plus experience to go get a better paying babysitter or nanny job. If anything this ad post is real blessing for the current full time sitter. Not so much a blessing for the sucker who gets stuck in the job next at $9 an hour.
Something tells me she doesn't even have a current babysitter, just wants to present the illusion that somebody is already working for that pittance of a salary on offer, to normalize it.
Don’t forget if you take this job that after awhile she’s going to just secretly replace you if she doesn’t like you.
Trying to spare her feelings? Why, because you're planning on firing her and you're hoping she doesn't see this and quit before you have someone else lined up? Even if this were a fair wage paying job, she's not giving me a lot of confidence as an employer.
What kid is waking up at 9.30 - 10am?
There also should be rule that you can post with also posting the comments.
That afternoon nap seems awfully timed, the kid probably goes to bed very late at night
Some do. My youngest switched me from 1st shift to 2nd shift She wakes around 10, naps around 3 and goes to bed around 11:30. I have a couple years to get her on a better track before school but she came out my little 2nd shifter.
Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to say that it's badly scheduled, like you say, it could be a second shift baby, more like the time can be inconvenient
Lol oh it can be!! But she's pretty chill with everything else I go with it, I just make sure we do our running around as soon as she wakes up in the mornings and clean while she's sleeping
7:30 to 5 for $9 an hour. People are nuts.
And, you have forced unpaid time off every school holidays.
The old “You vacation when we do.”
The minimum wage in NY state is $15.. What a clown.
The minimum wage in OK is $7.25. I know people who would jump at this opportunity. :(
This isn’t the worst I’ve seen. She can probably find someone if they are allowed to bring their kid(s) with them. I had to google this area and while $9 per hour isn’t supporting anyone the area is cheap enough that a spouse without a job would probably be agreeable to the $450 a week in exchange for not having to pay daycare. That as opposed to paying daycare and working for minimum wage.
It’s the in-home and schedule that makes this unreasonable. Daycares charge around $300-$350 week in Buffalo. You can find care at someone else’s house for $300 a week. But this person doesn’t want their kid off schedule so refuses to wake them up to drop them off somewhere.
Yep. If I can bring my kids or if I'm elderly, I'm fine with this
First question: What happened between CB and the sitter, that CB is firing them behind their back?
Current sitter likely insisted on a pay increase.
That would be my first guess, too. Or complained about CB arriving late every work night. Something like that. But CB is being magnanimous not to 'correct' her 'bad behavior' and instead, is simply finding someone 'who appreciates the opportunity.' 🤪
😂😂
I love how she posts enough identifying information that her employee would figure out who she was anyway. Secondly, I hate it when people say that their animals are friendly. They're usually anything but.
And let me guess, she wants the current babysitter to clean and she said no. So mom got huffy and wants a new one that will clean. I mean why not get the world for 9 bucks an hour. And it’s always a red flag for me when they say a flat rate. That tells me if you go over 5pm you don’t get paid for your time. So it could average less than 9 bucks an hour some weeks.
She might wanna keep her current sitter. Lmao. Idk what she’s expecting with a new sitter
This is double the price of most ads on here.
Also "beyond friendly" sounds a little scary.
Yeah, I have a Rottweiler that is “beyond friendly”. It’s not great.
She doesn't want her current babysitter to post how horrible she is.
Lol they shouldn't be worried about hurting their full time sitters with that rate
I am her current sitter…and my feelings are not hurt.
the funniest part to me is her thinking her childs schedule wont be completely different in 6 mos
Closer to like $7-8 cause after 40 it should be OT and that would make up the last bit.
There are plenty of perks, though. You have full use of the bathroom and faucets.
Why don't they just take their kid to a day care?
It sounds shocking until we consider that this woman herself watches 30 to 150 kids (depending on what grade she teaches), has to plan a full week worth of lesson plans, grade homework, attend meetings, and deal with parents for not much more than this. I’ll cut her some slack since we, as a society, have put her in the position of only being able to pay this much.
This is much better than the other sitter/nanny posts I've seen. Some offer $1.45 per hour for watching 6 kids 😅
This is just a struggling teacher. I don't find her to be a CB
Right? Kinda aggravating that were getting together to point and laugh at someone who actually can't afford her life and needs help, despite the fact that she has a full time career as a TEACHER (which is a life-goal for many that requires time and money to get). And there's no mention of dual income.
This post reflects the state of our country. It's fucking sad.
I agree with this mostly, because our country is in a terrible state in terms of childcare and we support parents abysmally compared to other countries. I don't think this is really a choosy beggar. But I don't understand why this kid isn't in daycare. Even in Buffalo, nannies run about $18 per hour, but you can find daycare for about $1500/month. Which is impossible for a lot of people but less than she's paying for 4 weeks for her babysitter, even at her proposed rate, which is like half the going market hourly rate for a nanny.
Teachers get paid terribly, it’s sad but that’s a lot of money when you get paid what we do. This is not a choosing begger at all.
Your own income does not determine the going rate for a job you’re paying someone else to do. That’s not how things work.
(And I’m getting a little tired of hearing about how hard teachers work. Everyone works hard, but not everyone gets weekends, every holiday, and summers off.)
That said, I don’t think she’s a CB. Just unrealistic and somewhat spoiled.
Just a note: teachers don’t actually get summers off, they just aren’t teaching. They’re lesson planning, and stuff like that.
Most teachers work on contract for between 170 to 190 days which means they don't get paid for summers or vacations.
So a starting teacher in my state (at least last year) made 40k for 180 days, this means their daily rate was 223(rounding up), a starting teacher works about 9 hours per day, 7.5 actually teaching ans the rest prepping, so their hourly is 24.77 an hour. I live in a medium cost of living state, median income is around 68k and the average house costs 380k.
I have been working as a teacher for 15 years and have a masters and make 73k.
I don’t quite see what this has to do with my comment. But good to know.
My mother worked as a teacher, and while, yes, she wasn’t paid for summers, she still had things to do all summer, so she really wasn’t “off.”
None of my teacher friends spend their summers on lesson plans (or “professional development”). They use the plans they already have. If something changes, they still don’t have to spend the equivalent of a full-time job creating new ones. They adapt the plans they have.
Edited to add an omitted word, and this: One of my teacher friends makes more than $70,000, brags about all the free time he has, and has no teaching education, certificate, or advanced degree. He teaches music.
Edit again: I mean no insult to your mom! Maybe methods have changed quite a bit since she was teaching, plus my sample size is too small to be representative.
Teachers in NY get paid quite well on average. Source: both my parents were school teachers in NY
I do truly feel sorry for a lot of these people though. It’s so hard to exist right now and having kids is more expensive than ever. I know they’re just trying to survive. And (hopefully) at least genuinely offering what they can afford. I think one would be nuts to take her up on it, but I get the desperation.
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